Ethnic divisions have long been linked to civil war and recent history seems full of examples. However, the mechanisms that lead a society down the path of ethnic conflict are not yet fully understood. This working paper presents the results of a series of workshops discussing the link between ethnicity and conflict under the condition of regime change. Based on contributions of area experts for four regions ‐ the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Great Lakes of Africa and the Middle East –this paper tries to answer four guiding questions: Is there a link between ethnicity and conflict? Are there transnational spillover effects? Does democratization contribute to ethnic violence? And are there institutional solutions for divided societies?

@article{linking-ethnic-conflict-democratization,
Title = {Linking Ethnic Conflict \& Democratization: An Assessment of Four Troubled Regions},
Author = {Vorrath, Judith and Krebs, Lutz F. and Senn, Dominic},
Year = {2007},
Volume = {NCCR Democracy Working Paper No. 6},
abstract = {Ethnic divisions have long been linked to civil war and recent history seems full of examples. However, the mechanisms that lead a society down the path of ethnic conflict are not yet fully understood. This working paper presents the results of a series of workshops discussing the link between ethnicity and conflict under the condition of regime change. Based on contributions of area experts for four regions - the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Great Lakes of Africa and the Middle East \textendash this paper tries to answer four guiding questions: Is there a link between ethnicity and conflict? Are there transnational spillover effects? Does democratization contribute to ethnic violence? And are there institutional solutions for divided societies?},
url = {http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:12878?lang=de}
}